Putin Proposes a New Nuclear Weapons Policy for Russia

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Putin is intensifying nuclear threats as the West wavers over Ukraine's use of long-range weapons

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Russian President Vladimir Putin at a security council meeting in Moscow in September 2024.

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America's rivals are piling on the pressure all at once

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Russian anti-submarine aircraft fly during joint naval and air drills with China in September.
Russian anti-submarine aircraft fly during joint naval and air drills with China in September.

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Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck video game system made for playing Halo

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Ukraine is using Steam Deck, a popular video game platform, for controlling remote guns.

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Satellite images show damage at Russian base that stored glide bombs after Ukrainian long-range strike

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Glide bombs released by a Russian warplane on August 7.
Glide bombs released by a Russian warplane.

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Ukraine's Kursk offensive shows it could win the war if the West ended its weapon restrictions, European official says

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A local volunteer looks at a building damaged by Ukrainian strikes in Kursk on August 16, 2024, following Ukraine's offensive into Russia's western Kursk region.

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Ukraine started this year on the brink of disaster. A lot has changed since.

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A destroyed border checkpoint with the sign "Ukraine" and "Russia" on August 16, 2024 in Sudzha, Russia.

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The plot to topple Putin

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A group of people stand between two stone columns.
Ever since the invasion of Ukraine, a loose and sometimes fractious cohort of Russian exiles — many of them based in Warsaw — has come to believe that Russia can be liberated only through violence and sabotage.

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More countries are openly flaunting their ties with Putin. They say it's just business.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Mongolia's President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh shake hands. Mongolian men on horses nin background.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin met Mongolia's President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh recently. Mongolia did not arrest Putin even though the country is a ICC member.

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Russia is exploiting this outdated election law to pay American influencers to sway voters

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The DOJ accused Russia of a foreign influence plot again.

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